International Trader - Asia

Unification Prospects Weigh on South Korea
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Speculation about North Korea's leader hits stocks in Seoul.

AS SOUTH KOREAN SHARES blipped lower last week amid concerns about growth and political risk, investors grew worried that more losses might lie ahead. The source of the decline: speculation that a coup d'&eacute;tat might have felled North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il, following reports, initially from Itar-Tass news, that Kim's portrait had vanished from some prominent venues and that state media had dropped the...